Where ignorance is bliss, 

'Tis folly to be wise.

Perhaps it would be better for science, 

that all criticism should be avowed.

Plato is my friend; 

Aristotle is my friend, 

but my greatest friend is truth.

Not a having and a resting, 

but a growing and becoming, 

is the character of perfection 

as culture conceives it.

Similarly, thought is a system. 

That system not only includes thought and feelings, 

but it includes the state of the body; 

it includes the whole of society — 

as thought is passing back and forth between people 

in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

Friendship is almost always 

the union of a part of one mind 

with the part of another; 

people are friends in spots.

To sit in the shade on a fine day 

and look upon verdure 

is the most perfect refreshment.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; 

the rest love not freedom, but licence.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear;

after that, fear has no power, 

and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. 

You are free.

Go as far as you can see; 

when you get there 

you'll be able to see farther.

Life is like music; 

it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, 

not by rule.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

If we have not quiet in our minds, 

outward comfort will do no more for us 

than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.